"Second uncle, let's go eat first. You can't go wrong. It's impossible for so many people present to wink at all." Xi Chao, a red-haired young man, said disapprovingly.
"I'd better go back and take another look, otherwise I'll always feel uneasy." Xi Longyuan pressed the elevator button and returned to the eighth floor.
The three of them stayed in the presidential suite, and there was a safe in the room. After taking the paintings out of the safe, they carefully spread them out on the table. Li Quanye took a magnifying glass and put the paintings against the scrolls to carefully identify them.
As time passed by, Xi Longyuan's heart started to beat.
Xi Chao sat aside with his legs crossed and playing with his mobile phone in his hand.
About ten minutes later, Li Quanye straightened up, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said, "It's not wrong. The whole painting is made of vigorous ink, the colors are rich and vibrant, and the artistic conception is vividly expressed. It is a true work of Master Qi Baishi."
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When Xi Longyuan heard this, he breathed a long sigh of relief and felt relieved.
Xi Chao put away the painting and said with a smile: "I said there will be no problem. Second uncle, you are too cautious."
This time, the three of them went downstairs to the restaurant and ate happily. When they came back, Xi Chao called appraiser Li Quanye to play billiards in the billiard room again.
As soon as I walked to a pool table, I heard someone behind me sneer: "Xue Chen, those three people are really stupid to the extreme. They obviously bought a fake product through their eyes, and they actually laughed at us."
"Stop talking about them, it's your turn to beat them."
Upon hearing these two sentences, Xi Chao and Li Quanye immediately turned around and looked at Xue Chen and Yu Qiang, who were playing billiards with their backs to them.
Xi Chao shouted: "You two, who do you think is stupid?"
Neither Xue Chen nor Yu Qiang noticed these two people. When they saw the two people, they stood behind them and looked at each other. Yu Qiang curled his lips indifferently: "You don't care who we are talking about, we didn't name them.
Dao surname."
Xi Chao had a cold face and said sarcastically: "I think you just can't eat the grapes and say sour grapes. You don't have the funds to compete, so you just talk behind your back."
Yu Qiang wanted to reply again, but was stopped by Xue Chen, "Yu Qiang, there is no need to argue with them, let's go back."
He didn't want to get into trouble with the three people from Yang'an because of this matter, because it was completely unnecessary and he was not the one who was deceived. It would be better to have less trouble than more trouble.
Yu Qiang nodded obediently, said no more, glanced at the other two mockingly, and followed Xue Chen away.
Seeing Xue Chen and Yu Qiang leaving, Xi Chao snorted: "What the hell!"
Li Quanye frowned. The result of his own appraisal was genuine, but when he saw the other party so firmly believing that they had punched him in the eyes, he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.
He very much hopes that the other party will argue hard to prove that what they bought is a fake, and then he will prove without any dispute that the painting is authentic, leaving the other party speechless. Only then will he feel happy and at ease.
But the other party didn't give me a chance at all, and didn't argue at all. This feeling was very unpleasant, and I felt a little irritable for no reason, and I even lost interest in playing.
"Xiaochao, let me find someone else to play with. I'm going back first."
When Xi Chao saw that Li Quanye stopped playing, he was not interested either, so he threw down his clubs and went back together.
Xi Longyuan, who was resting on the sofa in the living room, saw the two people coming back so soon, so he asked casually. Xi Chao said angrily and exaggerated what happened just now: "I think they are just jealous, so they talk nonsense and deceive themselves."
That’s it!”
Xi Longyuan sat upright with a solemn expression, thought for a while, got up and left the guest room, walked around and came to the door of an ordinary guest room, thought again and again, and knocked on the door.
Xue Chen was chatting with Yan Ruxing about the ghost market. They planned to go to the ghost market at night to see what they had to see. When they heard a knock on the door, they thought it was Yu Qiang or Tao Sihai. When they opened the door, they saw it was San San from Yang'an.
The man in the lead was slightly surprised.
"I'm sorry to disturb your rest. Can I have a chat with you two?" Xi Longyuan said politely.
"Please come in." Xue Chen stepped aside.
After entering the room, Xi Longyuan couldn't help but said straight to the point as soon as he sat down: "Two friends, do you think there is something wrong with that painting by Master Qi Baishi?"
While speaking, he looked at Yan Ruxing, because in his opinion, Yan Ruxing could only be the one responsible for the appraisal among the four people in this group, because the other three were too young.
Yan Ruxing touched his chin and looked at Xue Chen. Xue Chen said: "Sir, there is no need to ask us if there is anything wrong with that painting. You can find out by asking if there is really Yin Hongfan in Pinghe City.
Already."
Xi Longyuan's face tightened, he nodded, got up and left.
In the evening of that day, Xue Chen and the other four people who had returned to the hotel after having dinner outside met three people who had hurried out in the lobby. They saw that the expressions of the three people were obviously wrong, their faces were ugly, and their whole faces were covered with a layer of blue.
gas.
When the three of them saw Xue Chen and the four of them, their expressions suddenly became even more ugly. Xi Chao even stopped and stopped in front of the four of them, and asked angrily: "You already knew there was something wrong with that painting.
, you know that Yin Hongfan is a liar, right? Why don't you tell us what your intentions are..."
The series of questions were like a barrage of questions, seeming to vent all the anger of being cheated on Xue Chen and the four of them.
The four of them ignored this man who looked like a mad dog and looked at him with pity in their eyes.
Xue Chen didn't feel the slightest bit ashamed for not reminding them. Some people didn't deserve sympathy either!
Xi Longyuan shouted: "Xi Chao, come back!"
Xi Chao glanced at the four people with fierce eyes and stepped back unwillingly.
The appraiser, Li Quanye, stepped forward hesitantly and asked Yan Ruxing with a pale face: "Can you tell me what's wrong with that painting?" His voice was full of annoyance.
Yan Ruxing only knew that the painting must be a fake, but as for what was wrong, he had not asked Xue Chen yet, so he pointed at Xue Chen and said: "I didn't see the problem with that painting either, he did.
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Not only Li Quanye, but also Xi Longyuan and Xi Chao looked at Xue Chen in surprise. Unexpectedly, it was the youngest man among the four who noticed the problem!
Xue Chen glanced at the man in front of him who was in a trance and said: "In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there used to be an antique shop in the capital called Shang Yunzhai. Shang Yunzhai had three appraisers, who were also masters of copying and forgery. They were known as the Three Musketeers.
One of them, Xu Qinian, can imitate Qi Baishi's paintings to the level of five or six tenths of the original paintings..."
"Shang Yunzhai, the Three Musketeers, Xu Qinian!" Li Quanye had naturally heard of this man's name, and his mouth was filled with bitterness, and he felt even more shameless.
Yan Ruxing was also moved in his heart. He secretly said that it was Xu Qinian who had forged it. No wonder it was so great. Shang Yunzhai had long since disappeared, and even the "Three Musketeers" had passed away. However, the reputation of the three of them had been passed down. Just because of these three
The level of copying and counterfeiting is very high, and it is difficult to identify it. This can be seen from the fact that even provincial museums were deceived.
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At around 11 o'clock in the evening, Xue Chen was dressed and ready to go to the ghost market. Yan Ruxing had gone to bed early, and Yu Qiang was not very interested. Only Tao Sihai wanted to follow Xue Chen to see the ghost market.
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After leaving the hotel, the two did not drive Yan Ruxing's Bentley, but hailed a taxi.
According to what Yan Ruxing said, the ghost markets at the beginning and the middle of the month are not in the same place. The ghost market in the middle of the month is in a courtyard on Tianan Road in Pinghe City.
When the taxi driver heard that the two of them were going to Tianan Road, he glanced at the two of them in the rearview mirror and chuckled: "Is it possible that you two are going to the ghost market?"
"Do you know about the ghost market?" Tao Sihai asked in surprise.
"I've heard of it, but I've never been there. Sometimes when I'm driving by, I can see something vague and quite scary. A group of people gather in a dark place, like a group of little ghosts having a meeting." The driver shook his head.
The head preaches.
After getting off the car at Tian'an Road and walking in the direction pointed by the driver, Xue Chen briefly told Tao Sihai the rules of the ghost market to avoid unnecessary trouble.
"Look at the goods without asking about them. If you like something, you can negotiate the price with the seller, but you can't ask where the thing comes from. This is a taboo."
"Brother Xue, don't worry, I won't cause trouble. I'm just following you to watch the excitement. I don't want to buy anything. I'm not as capable as you." Tao Sihai smiled and asked curiously.
What do ghost markets sell?
"There are no rules about what is sold in the ghost market. There are all kinds of things. Especially in the old days, that is, before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the things sold in the ghost market are everything you can think of and you can't find. I heard that there were even people selling children." Xue Chen said.
road.
"Selling children!" Tao Sihai was surprised.
"Not only is it selling, but it can also be faked. The buyer said that the baby in his arms was a boy. When the buyer wanted to inspect the goods, he opened the diaper, and there was a pocket of feces and urine in the diaper. Naturally, the buyer couldn't do it.
When inspecting the goods, I could only look with my eyes. When I saw the "little diced meat", I thought it was a boy. But when I bought it home and washed it, I realized that it was a fake. This is all true and not spread by rumors.
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Xue Chen told two more magical stories about the black market. For example, the barrel of explosives used by Wang Jingwei to assassinate Prince Regent Zaifeng was bought from the black market. As for the authenticity, it is unknown.
And Tao Sihai was also amazed when he heard it.
The two of them walked and chatted, and it didn't take long before they came to a courtyard without a door. The courtyard was about three to four hundred square meters in size. There were some flickering lights floating out, and bursts of light.
The rustling sound of whispers.
Although today is the 15th and the moon is quite full, the courtyard is still hazy and unclear. I can only vaguely see black shadows floating back and forth here and there, as if a lonely ghost is wandering back and forth. It is definitely not for the faint of heart.
Dare to get close. But Xue Chen and Tao Sihai walked in immediately. (To be continued)